American - Educator | October 27, 1906 - April 19, 1963
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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A Socrates in every classroom.
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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
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The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
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